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A Damsel in Distress (1937)

George Stevens

Everyone at Tottleigh Castle knows that Lady Alyce Marshmorton is about to get married, but no one knows for certain who the lucky man will be. When the servants hold a wager, houseboy Albert bets that Lady Alyce will take as her husband a complete stranger, whilst the butler Keggs is confident that she will select her mother’s favourite, a jazz-loving buffoon named Reggie... [More...]

A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

Charles Crichton

London gangster George Thomason has masterminded the perfect jewel robbery, which he is about to put into action with his henchman Ken Pile, an animal-lover with a crippling stutter, and a pair of Americans - Wanda Gerschwitz and Otto West. The latter pretend to be brother and sister but are in fact lovers who intend to double-cross George and Ken after the robbery... [More...]

A Night at the Opera (1935)

Sam Wood

By donating money to Otis B. Driftwood, an opera promoter of dubious repute, wealthy widow Mrs Claypool hopes to buy her way into high society. Whilst in Milan, Driftwood signs up an unknown chorus singer, Riccardo, mistaking him for the great tenor Lassparri. The latter is signed up for the New York opera company by another promoter, Gottlieb... [More...]

Adam’s Rib (1949)

George Cukor

District Attorney Adam Bonner is far from pleased when he is called upon to prosecute Doris Attinger, a young woman who shot and wounded her husband when she found him in the arms of his mistress. The reason Adam is not pleased is because his wife, Amanda, who is also a lawyer, is convinced that Doris is the victim in the affair... [More...]

An American Werewolf in London (1981)

John Landis

David Kessler and Jack Goodman are two American college backpackers who decide to make a tour of Europe. Where better to begin than the bleak, soggy Yorkshire moors? As night falls, they enter an inn named The Slaughtered Lamb, hoping for rest and refreshment. Instead, they receive a deathly cold reception from a sinister collection of locals who, not liking foreign folk, drive them away with a warning not to stray on the moors... [More...]

Anchors Aweigh (1945)

George Sidney

Returning home to a hero’s welcome after WWII, navy personnel Clarence Doolittle and Joe Brady can hardly wait to get ashore and extract every last morsel of pleasure from their leave. But whilst Joe has a hot date lined up, Clarence is at a loose end and, worse, he lacks both experience and confidence in the woman-baiting department... [More...]

The Awful Truth (1937)

Leo McCarey

Jerry Warriner returns home after his holiday to find that his wife Lucy has apparently got herself romantically involved with her music teacher, Armand Duvalle. Lucy suspects that Jerry also has something to hide, because he clearly hasn’t been to Florida as he claims. The couple agree on an amicable divorce, and Lucy moves out to live in an apartment with her mother... [More...]

Born Yesterday (1950)

George Cukor

Having made his fortune as a scrap metal merchant, Harry Brock moves to Washington DC to expand his empire by buying one or two congressmen. He takes with him his goofy mistress, Billie Dawn, whom he requires to sign documents periodically to conceal his shady business deals from the government. Brock is no sophisticate but he is embarrassed by his girlfriend’s complete lack of social skills and general knowledge... [More...]

Bringing Up Baby (1938)

Howard Hawks

To secure a million dollar donation for his natural history museum, palaeontologist David Huxley finds he has to play a round of golf with his donor’s agent, Mr Peabody. David’s attention is diverted by an erratic young woman, Susan Vance, who happens to be the niece of his wealthy donor... [More...]

Call Me Madam (1953)

Walter Lang

The United States needs to appoint a new ambassador to the European country of Lichtenburg and who better than the oil tycoon and society queen Sally Adams. She has no political sense and even less knowledge of international affairs, but, boy, can she throw a good party. An unemployed journalist named Kenneth Gibson persuades Sally to hire him as her press attaché, and off they go, to a country so small that it cannot be seen on the map without the aid of magnifying glass... [More...]

Carefree (1938)

Mark Sandrich

In a desperate attempt to get his fiancée Amanda to agree to marry him, Stephen Arden asks his psychiatrist friend, Dr Tony Flagg, to analyse her. Tony does as he is instructed, but unwittingly causes Amanda to fall in love with him. To rectify the situation, Tony subjects Amanda to a subconscious mind stimulus which is intended to persuade her that he has no feelings for her... [More...]

Charade (1963)

Stanley Donen

Reggie Lambert returns from a holiday in the French Alps to learn that her husband has been murdered, thrown from a train in his pyjamas. Shortly before he died, Lambert liquidated all of his assets, but there is no trace of the money he accumulated in doing so. At the funeral, two mysterious men turn up to inspect the corpse and subsequently start to harass Reggie, convinced that she knows the whereabouts of Lambert’s missing fortune... [More...]

Christmas in July (1940)

Preston Sturges

Jimmy MacDonald is a low-paid clerk in the Baxter Coffee House Company. Desperately short of cash, he enters a rival company’s slogan competition, and expects to win the $25,000 prize. His colleagues decide to play a practical joke on him, sending him a faked telegram claiming he won the prize... [More...]

Desk Set (1957)

Walter Lang

Bunny Watson runs the reference department of the Federal Broadcasting Network, leading a team that provides answers swiftly and accurately on a whole range of topics to anyone else in the company. Bunny is happy in her work but has a frustrated love life. For seven years she had been dating company executive Mike Cutler, but the prospect of marriage continues to be a distant dream... [More...]

Father of the Bride (1950)

Vincente Minnelli

Stanley and Ellie Banks are an ordinary middle-class American couple who have lived a well-ordered, trouble-free life – until that awful Earth-shattering day when their daughter Kay announces that she intends to get married. Seized by anxieties that only a father about to lose his daughter can ever know, Stanley immediately insists on meeting the man who is about to steal his beloved Kay so that he can find out everything he can about him, right down to his bank balance and shoe size... [More...]

Father’s Little Dividend (1951)

Vincente Minnelli

With his daughter Kay now happily married, Stanley Banks thinks that his worries are over. How wrong he is. Just when everything appears to be going swimmingly, Kay drops her bombshell – she is expecting a baby! The spectre of sleepless nights and soiled nappies swoops down on Stanley when his wife Ellie suggests that Kay and her husband, Buckley, move into their house... [More...]

Finian’s Rainbow (1968)

Francis Ford Coppola

Finian McLonergan absconds from his native Ireland with a stolen crock of gold, accompanied by his daughter Sharon. He arrives in Rainbow Valley, USA, believing that if he buries the crock near to Fort Knox he will become a wealthy man. Determined to thwart his scheme is Og, a leprechaun who will turn into a human being unless he can recover the crock, which has the power to grant three wishes... [More...]

Follow the Fleet (1936)

Mark Sandrich

When his dancing partner, Sherry Martin, declines to marry him, Bake Baker decides to join the navy. Bake soon grows disillusioned with the life of a sailor and, as soon as his ship docks at San Francisco, he heads straight for the nearest nightclub. Sherry just happens to be working here as a dance hostess and Bake cannot resist trying to sweep her off her feet again... [More...]

Funny Face (1957)

Stanley Donen

Fashion magazine editor Maggie Prescott is convinced that the next glamour look will combine beauty with intellect. Dissatisfied with her leading model, she arranges a photo-shoot in a Greenwich Village bookshop with her faithful photographer Dick Avery. Even here, the model fails to impress, but Dick cannot help noticing the young bookish shop assistant, Jo Stockton... [More...]

The Gay Divorcee (1934)

Mark Sandrich

After a brief stay in Paris, the celebrated American dancer Guy Holden travels to England with his friend, Egbert Fitzgerald, a lawyer who has agreed to temporarily take the reins at his father’s London law firm. As he passes through customs, Guy meets an attractive young American woman, Mimi, and becomes obsessed with seeing her again... [More...]

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